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I have a recipe for a Surly Furious clone that I have been wanting to try for a while now. The recipe calls for using Wyeast 1335 which is a British Ale Yeast. When I went to order my ingredients, the HBS I order from didn't have that yeast strain in stock. My question is, I have a pack...

Well, it's gameday bitches! I know we had a thread for Michigan Football in here last year so I'm starting one up today for the 2013 season for fellow Michigan fans here in the forum to discuss the season! First of all, here is a damn sweet hype video I found on Youtube that gives me...

I was brewing yesterday and got called to work about a half hour into my mash. My temp was right on at 152 when I left. When I got back, the mash had been going for about 3 hours total and my temp had dropped to about 145. My question is, does mashing more than 3 hours hurt anything? The...

I just wanted to share a basic wheat ale that I use and add fresh strawberries to it to make a delicious Strawberry Ale. I use BIAB for this recipe but traditional AG would work as well. Grains: 5.5 lbs. - American 2-row 3.5 lbs. - American Wheat 0.5 lbs. - Torrified Wheat .25 lbs. -...

Ok, so I was planning on brewing up an Apricot Blonde to be ready for when the warm weather finally arrives back to NE Ohio and I ordered all of my supplies from my LHBS. But when I went to pick them up, the guy at my LHBS ordered me a can of Vintners Apricot Fruit Wine Base instead of the...

Celebration is one of my favorite IPA's out there and last night I brewed up a batch using the following AG recipe I found somewhere on the interweb: BATCH SIZE - 5.5 GALLONS OG - 1.068 FG - 1.015 IBU - 68 GRAIN BILL: 12.5 LBS 2-ROW PALE MALT 1.50 LBS BRITISH CRYSTAL 55L...

I ordered all of my ingredients for my next couple of batches and I was supposed to have an oz of Magnum Hops for bittering and I seem to have forgotten to order them. I have an oz of Simcoe that I'm not using in my freezer and I was wondering if I could just use that in place of the Magnum...

Just a question about harvesting yeast. First of all, this was my first attempt at harvesting yeast and also my first attempt at making a starter period so bare with me. I'm wanting to make a Bells Oberon clone and heard that it is best to harvest their ale yeast. I had some Oberon still...

Hello. Just to start off, I've never made a starter but I am planning on starting to do so. I have brewed about 15 beers and I've always just pitched straight from the Wyeast smack pack with no issues so far. I just started making AG doing BIAB and I feel like it's time to step my game up...

Hello all. I am getting ready to start brewing for the Holidays and I was wanting to do something along the lines of Great Lakes Christmas Ale. I threw this recipe together and any feedback/critiques would be greatly appreciated before I throw an order together. CHRISTMAS ALE RECIPE...

So, last night I brewed a Ranger extract clone recipe that called for 2#'s of cane sugar which I forgot to add. Will this have any adverse effect on the beer itself? It still smelled great and fermentation has started less than 12 hours after pitching the yeast. The recipe called for an OG...

So, I'm brewing an Oberon clone 2 days ago and took my wyeast out of the fridge and put it outside to warm it up. Well I forgot about it and over an hour later after baking in the sun I brought it back in. I waited a bit before smacking it and then waited almost 6 hours and there was no...

I recently bought a Fruit Wheat Beer Kit from Adventures in Homebrewing. My plan was to add fresh strawberries that I have cleaned, cut and froze to the beer once it is done fermenting. My question is, the kit came with a bottle of strawberry extract and I was wondering if I would need to...

Picked up my first 4 pack of this yesterday and enjoyed my first LEM of the season! Good stuff!

Hi, I'm Matt and I'm from Wooster Ohio. I've been a fan of craft beers for many many years and for some reason never gave homebrewing a try. I'd been to a place in Strongsville, OH where you can use their equipement to brew your own beer and I guess that always kept me contented. But just...